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Using the Viewer Control Panel

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The Viewer Control Panel, as shown in the following image, (located at the bottom of the window) contains the controls you use to navigate through the report and to search for a string in the report. The Viewer Control Panel's navigational controls allow you to display the next or previous page, the first or last page, or a specific page. You use the searching function to have the Viewer locate a search string you specify within all report pages.

Note: When specifying a search string, you must specify the actual number of spaces between characters because HTML displays a single space, even when multiple spaces are used between characters.

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Procedure: How to Navigate Through a Report

The Viewer Control Panel offers several ways to view pages in your report:

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Searching a Report

The Viewer Control Panel contains controls that offer several ways to search your report. Using the Viewer's search controls, you can select a string of information, such as a phrase that occurs in your report or a group of numbers, and search for each occurrence of that string. You can further customize your search by matching capitalization of words exactly (a case-sensitive search) or by controlling the direction of your search (either forward or backward from your starting point in the report). Use these controls to search your report:

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Procedure: How to Search the Report
  1. Enter the string in the Search input box.
  2. Click Match Case if you want to perform a case-sensitive search.

    Notice that the WebFOCUS Viewer displays the Match Case button with a red line across it to indicate that it is active.

  3. To begin your search, click:
    1. Search Backward to search for the string from the current page back to the first page, or
    2. Find to search from the current page to the end of your report.

    The WebFOCUS Viewer searches the report and underlines the first occurrence of the string.

  4. Click Find again to search for another occurrence of the string.
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Example: Using the Viewer Control Panel to Search

You want to use the Viewer Control Panel to navigate a long report called Coffee Sales to find occurrences of the string "Kona," a type of coffee that you sell. After you run the report, WebFOCUS displays the first page of the report in the Viewer.

  1. To search for sales of Kona, type Kona in the input box and click Find as shown in the following image.

    The WebFOCUS Viewer returns your report with the first occurrence of your search string underlined as shown in the following image.

  2. Click Find again to locate the next occurrence of Kona.
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Procedure: How to Customize Search Results With a Cascading Style Sheet

The WebFOCUS Viewer searches the report and underlines the first occurrence of the text string found. You may customize the search results by applying a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) with a color and/or style defined.

  1. Open a new text file by using a third-party text editor, such as Notepad.
  2. Type the following example Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) code: 
    BODY {
 font : x-small Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
 }
 U {
 background : Blue;
 text-decoration : none;
 color : White;
 font : bold;
 }

    In the CSS example code above, underlined text in the body of the report will be changed to have the background color set to Blue, the text set to bold, and the text color set to White.

  3. Save the file as a Cascading Style Sheet (.css).

    Note: Type .css as the file extension. For example, findcolor.css.

    The location to save the CSS file to depends on the WebFOCUS environment you are working in.

    Note: CSS files are accessed from a Web accessible location. For WebFOCUS and Developer Studio installations the /ibi_html alias is a location that web accessible content can be stored.

    1. If you are working in Developer Studio local project environment, save the CSS file to \ibi\DevStudioxx\ibi_html directory. Where xx is the Developer Studio release number. You may specify the URL to the CSS file within the Report Painter reporting tool. In the Style tab of the Report Options dialog box (for HTML format), select Style File Selection and enter the URL value in the External Cascading Stylesheet URL input field. For example: /ibi_html/findcolor.css.
    2. If you are using Developer Studio connected to a remote WebFOCUS Environment, or not using Developer Studio but coding a self service FEX, then save the CSS file in \ibi\WebFOCUSxx\ibi_html. Where xx is the WebFOCUS Release number.
    3. If you are working in Managed Reporting, the CSS file can be imported into the Managed Reporting domain. Once imported, it will be located in the Other Files folder. The reporting tools have an option to select a Cascading Style File within the Managed Reporting domain. You may select the CSS file in the reporting tools from the Report Options or Report Properties.
      • HTML Report Assistant - From the Report options tab, select the Apply an existing Cascading Style Sheet option from the Global report styling section.
      • Power Painter – From the Report Properties Stylesheet reference field, browse to select the file type Cascading Style Sheet.
  4. Open your report with a reporting tool, or the Text Editor, and apply the Cascading Style Sheet.

    In the following code, the findcolor.css Cascading Style Sheet is applied to the report:

    TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR MODEL SEATS
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE SET WEBVIEWER ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
CSSURL=/ibi_html/findcolor.css, $
ENDSTYLE
END

    Note: Fully qualify the URL to the CSS file when the CSS file is located on a different web location than the WebFOCUS Environment you are running the report from. For example: CSSURL=http://hostname[:port]/ibi_html/findcolor.css $, where hostname[:port] is the host name and port number of the web or application server the CSS file is accessible from.

  5. Run the report.
  6. Enter the string in the Search input box and click Find.

    The WebFOCUS Viewer searches the report and highlights the first occurrence of the string found in blue. In the example below, a report using the findcolor.css Cascading Style Sheet searches and finds DOOR by highlighting the word blue.

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